Barry v. Barry’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 1931
8 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No man while married shall bequeath away from his wife more than' one-half of his property, nor shall any woman while married bequeath away from her husband more than one-half of her property. But either may consent in writing,, executed in the presence of two witnesses, that the other may bequeath more than one-half of his or her property from the one so consenting.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hanson v. Hanson
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.